Modernist Legacies Trends and Faultlines in

Modernist Legacies provides a comprehensive critical overview of some of the most significant currents in contemporary British poetry. The essays chart a series of currents in British poetry that take off from the modernism of the early twentieth century and remain committed to linguistic innovation, formal experimentation, a deep engagement with media and materiality, and an obligation to grasp contemporary society and to probe the place of poetry within it. Many of the essays focus on the significance of the American context for the way the modernist legacy is transmitted. As well as studies of established poets such as Barry MacSweeney, Wendy Mulford, Denise Riley, and Tom Raworth, the collection includes critical essays on younger poets such as Caroline Bergvall, Sean Bonney, Jeff Hilson, and Keston Sutherland.

Abigail Lang is Associate Professor at Université Paris-Diderot, France.

David Nowell Smith is Lecturer in Literature at the University of East Anglia, UK.

Introduction; David Nowell Smith and Abigail Lang
PART I: HISTORIES SINCE MODERNISM
1. Warring Clans, Podsolized Ground: Language in Contemporary UK Poetry; Peter Middleton
2. Skipping Across the Pond: Interaction between American and British Poetries, 1964-1970; Allen Fisher and Robert Hampson
3. New British Schools; Romana Huk
PART II: THE MODERNIST LEGACY
4. "Who am I to say? How little": Anthony Barnett's Citations Followed On; Xavier Kalck
5. "Kinked up like it wants to bark": Contemporary British Poetry at the Tomb of the Poète Maudit; Simon Perril
6. The Atypicality of Jeff Hilson: Metrical Language and Modernist Pleasure; Lacy Rumsey
7. Balsam Flex: Cassette Culture and Poetry; Will Montgomery
8. Caroline Bergvall's Poetics of the Infrathin; Vincent Broqua
PART III: POETICAL AND POLITICAL COMMITMENTS
9. Transcultural Hybridity and Modernist Legacies: Observations on Late Twentieth and Early Twenty First Century British Poetry; Sara Greaves
10. Langwij a thi guhtr; David Nowell Smith
11. Strikers with Poems; Luke Roberts
12. Forms of Reproduction in Wendy Mulford's Early Work; Samuel Solomon
13. "Ill read ill said": Faultlines in Contemporary Poetics as Ideology; Drew Milne
Further Reading: 99 poets

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